"A Southern Wind Blowing Through the Church." Article on How the Energy of the Church Is Shifting to Africa, Latin America and South East Asia, Rather

[mdgspencer]

see A southern wind blowing through the church | Catholic Star Herald

“Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not advocating an abandonment of the important and holy sites of a North Atlantic past, but rather an honest recognition that Nairobi and Bogota now have a lot more practicing believers than do Dublin and Paris; and that Europe, while always holding a special place in Christian history, was not the original location of its central mysteries, anyway.”

 

[BartholomewB]

I’m not so sure about Latin America. The Catholic Church is declining in numbers in several countries in the region, though – unlike Europe and North America – not so much being overtaken by atheism and irreligion as by the Assemblies of God and other Pentecostal churches.

 

[twf]

Yep. Pentecostalism has spread like wildfire in Latin America and in many (most?) Latin American countries there’s a true priest shortage… I’m not talking one priest per 2000-3000 faithful as you find in North America… I’m talking one priest per 10 000 faithful. That’s the norm in much of Latin America.
Latin America was far more Catholic than North America historically… seems odd to talk of a shift from here to there.

 

[Casilda]

Chile is out, Catholicism is nominal there especially after papa Francis’ last visit. The abuse scandal was badly handled.

 

[Trying2overcome]

Latin Americans are sprinting to the nearest protestant congregations.